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Compassion, illegal immigration and hypocrisy. (Editorial).(Editorial)
HYPOCRISY and sentimentality have been the most significant aspects of the present debate about the treatment of unauthorised arrivals claiming to be refugees, especially those arriving by boat, and they have blossomed since the case of the Norwegian ship Tampa. As is all too common these days, they are disguised by protestations of humanitarianism and compassion. Not that there are no reasons for genuine concern. In the case of the Tampa, the Norwegian container ship which did entirely the right thing by rescuing a boatload of "refugees", the dilemmas of rational policy-making were all too clear. But that is where rational policy debate virtually stopped.
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